Portion
of a General Plan Sheet, showing the Area Listing/Editing panel

The General Plan CAD Application

This
CAD application incorporates specific functions for the creation of
General Plans. The format of the General Plans created conforms with the
requirements of the Surveyors General in all provinces of South Africa, in
Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia.

Up
to 30 General Plan Sheets may be created for any Co-ordinate File, The
Sheet numbering is from Sheet #02 to Sheet #30. Sheet #01 is a reserved
number for the GP Data Sheet.

The
Co-ordinate File is used as the source of Point data. These Point Data may
be used for the construction of the necessary Plan Lines, and/or the Lines
may be imported from a variety of external sources.

Figural
data, areas and stand numbering may either be auto-generated, or
User generated.

A
variety of Text related functions may be employed for completing the
headings, street names etc.

Using
simple mouse or keyboard commands, the on-screen view of a General Plan
may be :-

Zoomed
Up,

Zoomed
Down,

Zoomed
to a defined window,

Zoomed
to the defined Plotting scale,

Zoomed
to a User defined scale,

Rotated
positively or negatively,

Panning
or scrolling the display

The
General Plan application functions are accessible from :-

a
Drop Down Menu system,

a
Tool Bars system (that includes most of the common functions), or

using
Single or Double Keyboard entered commands.

The
standard CAD functions included are :-

Importing
Line, Arc and/or Text Data :-

from
a SURPAC General Plan, Data Sheet, Working Plan or General CAD
plotting Sheet,

from
a TopoCAD Sheet, or

from
a DXF file.

Line
construction/editing :-

Draw
using various colours, widths and styling,

Generate
(using Polar data),

Replicate,

Dimension,

Trim/Snap,

Subdivide,

Part
Walls,

Draw
arrows, rectangles, arcs, circles.

Point
functions :-

Add,
Edit or Delete a Point,

View
a Point's information

Calculate
Polars,

Calculate
Joins,

Calculate
Intersections,

Circle
and Name Points

Text
functions :-

Write
a Text Item using any Font, any Size, any Direction, any
compaction or styling,

Edit
or Delete a Text Item,

Dynamically
Move a Text Item,

Dynamically
Copy a Text Item,

Dynamically
Resize, Position and/or Orientate a Text Item,

Import
Text Items from an ASCII file,

Reset
the attributes of all, or selected Text Items.

Graphic
Image functions :-

Import
Graphic Images (BMP, JPEG, GIF, ICO, WMF or EMF formats)

Create
Graphic Image of Sheet, or portion of the Sheet (BMP format)

Flip
an Image (Horizontal, Vertical or both)

Set
Images to be in front of, or behind, drawing information

Move
an Image

Re-Size
an Image

Shift
an Image

Use
the SURPAC "Frame" function to :-

Copy
defined a block of Data from Position to Position, or Sheet to Sheet,